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Auckland Star, Volume I, Issue 144, 25 June 1870, Page 2

A correspondent offers his seiwices as a letter writer, and warrants his epistles to "draw a parent's tear, stir the expiring embers of waning affection, and awaken the full ecstacies of a lover's heart."

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